By Gomin Dayasiri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colloquial Sinhala is an exotic dialect when phrases are enunciated in the vernacular with the input of a smattering Anglo-Saxon linguistics that, leads to-‘Broken English’. Sounds more the railcar ‘burgher-ism’ than an outpouring of intones from the Dutch Burgher Union. Parts of the 19th Amendment are on the verge […]

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By Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror According to a further report (B report) filed into the magisterial inquiry over the Bond scam by the prosecution today, it was revealed that UPFA Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara had received a cheque of Rs.1 million from Walt & Row Associates-a Perpetual Treasuries Ltd related group company in 2015. […]

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Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 24. 5.2018 We all know that all right thinking and sane Tamils and Muslims accept that this is the land of the Sinhala people (Sinhaladveepa or Lankadveepa) as it had been known for the past 2500 years or more.  I don’t think there is any debate over […]

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DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, Attorney-at-law As a Sri Lankan citizen and a lawyer, I am thoroughly disgusted with C. V. Vigneswaran the Chief Minister of the Northern Province and the rest of the crowd of Eelamists who according to the newspapers commemorated the LTTE dead at a ceremony held in Vellamullevikkal on or about 18th May 2018.[1] […]

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 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වසර 30 කාලයක් පුරා ඇදී ගිය ඊලාම් යුද්ධය එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානය පරාජය කිරීමෙන් පසුව නිම විය​. මේ කාලය පුරා යුද විශලේෂකයන් , සමහරක් හමුදා නිලධාරීන් සහ බොහෝ දේශපාලකයන් විශ්වාස කලේ ප්‍රභාකරන් සහ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානය  යුදමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කල නොහැකි බවයි. නමුත් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික හමුදාව එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊය පරාජය කළහ​. ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවක් සහිතව විශාල භූමියක් පාලනය කල […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS The first’ war cry’ over the ‘war crimes’ of Sri Lanka  came from  Britain’s Channel 4” television station. In  25. August 2009, Channel Four” broadcast one minute long footage showing Sri Lanka army brutally executing naked persons during the final stages of the war. As further gunshots ring out, the camera pans to […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS Channel 4 issued a second version of it’s ‘war crimes’ video, with the title, Sri Lanka’s Killing fields”. It was telecast on 14 June 2011.  The documentary was made by ITN Productions and presented by Jon Snow, of Channel 4 News using a dossier compiled by Channel Four. The footage consisted of three […]

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RANJITH SOYSA The President, Sirisena paid tributes to the members of Sri Lankan defence services personnel for the sacrifices made in the protection of the country and the state at the Government war memorial meeting. He was highly critical of the individuals who would not know  the difference between a soldier and a terrorist, One […]

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By W. Pathirana. Retired Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo. A couple of recent news paper articles on similarities between Sinhalese and Bengali languages prompted me to submit this article. During the years 1967 – 1975 as a university student in Kolkata, the writer’s interest in Bengali language grew more intense with time as surprising similarities […]

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